National Gazetteer (1868) - Bemerton

"BEMERTON, a chapelry in the parish of Fugglestone St. Peter, hundred of
Branch and Dole, in the county of Wilts, near Salisbury. The living is a
rectory united with that of Fugglestone, in the diocese of Salisbury. The
church is dedicated to St. Andrew. The rectory of Bemerton has been held by
several distinguished men:- Curle, Bishop of Winchester; George Herbert, the
poet; John Norris, the metaphysician; and Archdeacon Coxe, the historian
and traveller. The parsonage-house was rebuilt and the church repaired by
the famous sacred poet, George Herbert. His remains were interred here, the
3rd of March, 1633. The church contains a monument to Norris, and another
to Herbert, recently erected."